With the government maintaining a vaccination target of 80 per of the adult population gradually restart tourism by mid-September, Hon. Minister for Health and Wellness, Sabrina Turner, is urging the remaining persons to get their COVID jab.
Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach, consistently voted as one of the world’s best beaches and the main draw for its tourism industry, is currently under serious threat of further erosion if intervention does not place soon.
Just after 10PM, Thursday 5th August, police were dispatched to a report of a burglary where the victim was indecently assaulted. The incident took place at Silver Oaks residential complex on Crewe Road, George Town.
A passing out parade has been held for the first squad of marines in the Turks and Caicos Regiment. Addressing the complement of 40 recruits, the TCI Governor Nigel Dakin focused on several themes, among them the regiment as a symbol of national unity, and political unity and support.
The St Helena Legislature has been dissolved in preparation for the next general election.
The Cayman Islands Government has given permission for eight helicopters carrying US military personnel to land in Grand Cayman tonight (Sunday, 15 August 2021) and tomorrow (Monday, 16 August 2021).
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr. John Lee, reports that 656 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since this was last reported on Friday, 13 August 2021. There were five positive test results in travellers.
On Monday, Cayman was been placed under a Tropical Storm Warning as Grace, currently a tropical depression, had shifted direction and could be in the local area by Tuesday.
The Premier of the British Virgin Islands has been defending his government’s decision to appoint political advisors.
Some 560 Census workers from Grand Cayman are getting trained at three venues on Grand Cayman in preparation for the 10 October 2021 start of Census 2021.